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"Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History and the Legend" exhibit; The Keep downloads around the world; Story Time in Ballenger Teachers Center

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Issue 38

February 2015
"Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History and the Legend" exhibit; The Keep downloads around the world; Story Time in Ballenger Teachers Center

Keywords: Booth Library,Eastern Illinois University

Note Booth
library news for eiu faculty
February 2015 Issue Number 38

Inside Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History and the Legend

The Keep: Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker will be the topic of
Downloads Booth Library’s spring semester exhibit and program
Around the series. The exhibit Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker:
World The History and the Legend will be on display from
February 7 to April 9. In addition, a series of related
programs and film screenings is planned. A full
schedule of events can be found on page three.

Student The saga of Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker is well-
Research / known in Texas history, but the story really began in
Creativity East Central Illinois. Cynthia Ann’s grandfather,
Award Seeks Elder John Parker, her uncles, Benjamin and Daniel
Applicants Parker, and other members of the family were
among the first white settlers of Crawford and Coles
Quanah and counties.
Cynthia Ann
Parker Event In about 1833, several members of the Parker clan
Schedule moved to Texas and created Fort Parker there. A
few years later, a band of Indians attacked the fort,
My Blue is killing many and kidnapping a few of the children,
Happy including Cynthia Ann, age 9.
Author Visits
Booth Cynthia Ann grew up as a member of the Comanche

Get Ready tribe, married one of the chiefs and bore three
for National
Library Week children; the oldest was Quanah. Cynthia Ann was

Subject kidnapped again and returned to her Parker relatives
Librarians
in Texas in 1860, but she never forgot her Quanah Parker, son of Cynthia Ann Parker and the “last

Comanche family and wished to return to them, Comanche chief” in America.

rejecting her family’s efforts to “civilize” her. became friends with political leaders, including
President Teddy Roosevelt. U.S. officials later
Quanah Parker grew up as a fierce Comanche bestowed on him the title of the “last Comanche
warrior and became a leader of his tribe. Like his chief” in America.

mother, he “There are still many descendants of the Parker
initially refused family living in the area,” said Allen Lanham, dean of
attempts by the library services. “We hope they and other community
U.S. members interested in local history will enjoy the
government to library’s program, and perhaps find a way to
civilize his participate.”
people. But
later, fearing for

their survival, he The complete schedule of events can be found on

led his tribe page three. For more information about the Quanah

peacefully onto and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History and the

an Oklahoma Legend, including complete program and exhibit

reservation, descriptions, visit the program web page at http://

where he library.eiu.edu/exhibits/parker/.

became More information also may be obtained by
influential in contacting Beth Heldebrandt, project director, at
fighting for their [email protected] or 581-6064.
rights.

Cynthia Ann Parker and her daughter, He was well- This program was made possible in part by a grant
Prairie Flower, in 1861. known in from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National
Washington, Endowment for the Humanities and the Illinois
D.C., and General Assembly.

NoteBooth: library news for eiu faculty

The Keep: Downloads Around the World

A university in Lagos, Nigeria. A library in
Turapati, India. A cafe in Medan, Indonesia.
Along the banks of the Seine, near Notre Dame.
What do these places have in common? They
are all locations where the research and
scholarship of Eastern Illinois University’s
faculty members were downloaded in the past
week. The Keep, Eastern’s institutional
repository, collects the research and scholarship
of EIU participating faculty, making it available
to scholars around the world.

To date over 350,000 downloads of over 37,000 Muslim Journeys Series Under Way
documents have increased EIU’s worldwide
impact and visibility. As part of the This screen capture shows a real-time world map of items being downloaded from
international Digital Commons Network – the The Keep, EIU’s institutional repository. Why not create your own account?
combined scholarship of every institution that
has a Digital Commons institutional repository
like The Keep – participating EIU faculty
regularly appear on monthly “Most Popular
Author” Top Ten lists in many discipline areas
including Scholarly Communication,
Microbiology, Plant Sciences, Higher
Education Administration, Labor Relations,
Communications Sciences and Disorders, and
many more areas. Their work in turn has put
EIU in the “Most Popular Institution” Top Ten
lists in Bacteriology, Biotechnology, Higher
Education and Teaching, among others.

Faculty members who are interested in creating
a research profile in The Keep may contact
institutional repository librarian Todd Bruns at
[email protected] or 581-8381.

February 2015 Issue Number 38

Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History and the Legend

Schedule of Events

February 20 Tours of Booth Library exhibit, Quanah Booth Library Meet in Marvin Foyer
and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History
1-5 p.m. and the Legend Tarble Arts Center

1-5 p.m. Guided tours of Tarble Arts Center West Reading presented by David Parker and James David Parker
exhibit, Early Folk Art in East-Central
2 p.m. Illinois

Preserving Parker Cemetery

Room, Booth Library

3 p.m. Parker Pioneer Burial Ground Historic West Reading presented by Steven Di Naso, geospatial scientist,

Preservation and Mapping Initiative Room, Booth Library EIU Department of Geology and Geography

7 p.m. Opening reception Buzzard Auditorium, light refreshments served
Room 1501

7:30 p.m. Keynote address: On the Trail with the Buzzard Auditorium, presented by Audrey Kalivoda, researcher and
Parkers and screening of documentary
Following the Parker Trail Room 1501 documentary filmmaker from Nashville, TN

February 21 Tours of Booth Library exhibit, Quanah Booth Library Meet in Marvin Foyer
9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History Tarble Arts Center
and the Legend
9 a.m.-noon
Guided tours of Tarble Arts Center
exhibit, Early Folk Art in East-Central
Illinois (exhibit open until 4 p.m.)

10 a.m. Quanah Parker and the Battle of Adobe West Reading presented by Richard Hummel, professor emeritus of

Walls Room, Booth Library sociology

11 a.m. Turning Hell into a Home: Depictions of West Reading presented by Robin Murray, EIU professor of English

Native Americans on Film Room, Booth Library

1 p.m. Film screening and discussion: Buzzard Auditorium, presented by Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska,
3:30 p.m. Daughter of Dawn
Room 1501 assistant professor of history
February 23
4:30 p.m. Daughter of Dawn is a recently
discovered silent film starring two of
Quanah Parker’s children.

Film screening and discussion: The Buzzard Auditorium, presented by Joe Heumann, professor emeritus of
Searchers
Room 1501 communication studies
The Searchers stars Natalie Wood and
John Wayne portraying characters
inspired by Cynthia Ann Parker and her
uncle, James Parker, who spent many
years trying to find her after she was
kidnapped by the Comanches.

Panel discussion: American Captivity Witters Conference Terry Barnhart, moderator, professor of history;
Narratives: A Literary Genre of Room 4440, Booth panelists: Janice Derr, assistant professor of library
Enduring Interest Library services; Laura Russman, graduate student in
historical administration; Angela Vietto, professor of
English

Children’s Author Visits Booth Library

Story times at Booth Ontario Library Association’s

Library’s Ballenger Best Bets 2013 and the Library

Reference: 581-6072 Teachers Center began on of Congress/Center for the
Circulation: 581-6071
Administration: 581-6061 January 31 with a special Book’s 52 Great Reads list,
www.library.eiu.edu
program featuring among other accolades.
Quanah Parker
Exhibits are Located children’s book author Jessica Young reads from her award-winning Young was one of the writers
Throughout the Jessica Young of Ontario, debut picture book, My Blue is Happy. featured in the 2015 Lions in
Library Canada. She read from her Winter literary festival, which
award-winning debut was held January 30-31 on the
Did you know picture book, My Blue is EIU campus. Young gave a craft
that Booth Happy (2013, Candlewick talk on January 31 at the Doudna
Library has Press/Walker UK). Fine Arts Center. She discussed
subject writing and publishing books for
bibliographers My Blue is Happy was young readers, with a focus on
for every included on the 2014 Bank
academic
discipline at Street College of Education Best Books of the picture books and chapter books. For more
Eastern?
Subject librarians Year for Children and Young Adults, the Texas information on the Lions in Winter literary
can provide
customized Library Association’s 2014 2×2 Reading List, the festival, visit lionsinwinter.org.
library instruction
sessions, Story times offered for ages 3-7
individual
research Story times at Booth Library are planned from 10 to
assistance, and 11 a.m. on February 7, 14, 21, 28; and March 7.
accept purchase Programs will feature stories, crafts and activities.
suggestions. Children ages 3 to 7 are invited to attend and must be
Contact accompanied by a parent or guardian.
information is
available on the For more information about the Ballenger Teachers
library website Center at Booth Library, visit the library website, or
under the call 581-8442.
Subject
Librarians link. Get Ready for National Library Week!

dsb National Library Week will be observed April 12-18, 2015,
with the theme “Unlimited possibilities @ your library®.” Best
-selling author David Baldacci is honorary chair of this year’s
celebration. Booth Library’s traditional National Library
Week book sale will be held on the clock tower quad on
Wednesday, April 15. The sale opens at 9 a.m. and ends at 4
p.m.

Booth Library will also host the fifth annual Edible Book
Festival on Thursday, April 16, from 4 - 6 p.m. To enter,
please register online at http://library.eiu.edu/exhibits/edible
-book.

In conjunction with National Library Week, Booth Library will
celebrate National Library Workers Day (NLWD) on Tuesday,
April 14. NLWD is a day for library staff, users, and
administrators to recognize the valuable contributions made by
all library workers.


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